Question
This poet concluded a poem with the line “the world no longer let me love/my hope and treasure lies above.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who “stretched thy joints to make thee even feet” in a poem addressed to the “ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,” “The Author to Her Book.”
ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet [or Anne Dudley] (the poem in the leadin is “Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”.)
[10e] Bradstreet included “The Author to her Book” in a collection titled The Tenth [one of these people], Lately Sprung Up in America. These nine Greek goddesses, including Calliope, represented the arts, history, and literature.
ANSWER: muses [accept The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America]
[10h] Bradstreet compared this woman to a “Damask rose, sprung from white and red” in the epitaph to a poem written on her death. In The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser allegorized this woman as Gloriana.
ANSWER: Queen Elizabeth I [or Elizabeth Tudor; prompt on Elizabeth]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |